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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1916
Page
14
Lexington police report a record number of cars passing through yesterday on Massachusetts Avenue and the State Road. The heavy volume created a late afternoon blockade at the junction of the two highways in East Lexington.
Mrs Ida M Butter of Waterville Maine says she was run down and could hardly work until she started Father John’s Medicine. She claims to have gained 30 pounds while taking it and notes success with the medicine for her children.
Buffalo reports thefts from the Prohibition campaign special as it travels across the U S in six weeks. Items stolen include breakfast foods, a trunk, a bathrobe, an overcoat, caps and hats. A cat acting as mascot briefly appeared, then vanished. The party moves on to Olean for resumed campaigning.
Secretary Lansing said federal workers should have their names placed on registration lists without personal registration if they wish to vote. He spoke in Watertown New York before heading to New York and expected to return to Washington by Monday.
Private employment agencies statewide will attend the Special Commission on Industrial Insurance hearing at the State House Wednesday morning to oppose a proposal to place all agencies under State control.
Mayor Curley makes his stage debut in Boston for a Red Cross fund drive at the Shubert Theatre. The Red Cross night features songs, a Red Cross girl star, nurse chorus, curtain speech, and Clifton Crawford comedy from an American perspective.
Benjamin Joy and Mayor Curley lead a Boston Red Cross fundraising effort across a theatre event. Six volunteers staffed by Miss Kellogg Robinson McDonald Wilson Brown Brooks greet patrons with Red Cross roses and Join Now folders. Sidney Morgan will oversee committee duties with a full day of meetings and a noon luncheon at the Exchange Club followed by a merchant meeting at the National Shawmut Bank.
Special primaries are set today in Suffolk County seven districts to nominate candidates to the House of Representatives. The Sixth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty second, Twenty third, Twenty fourth and Twenty seventh districts vote light, per the revised apportionment report.
More than 25 000 men women and children attended the Beth Israel Hospital dedication at 45 Townsend street Roxbury the first Jewish hospital in New England. Governor McCall arrived to take part but the crowd blocked access to the platform and he had to return.
After an appeal by Representative Simon Swig, about 20000 was raised by attending men and women. Mayor Curley urged a permanent 100000 fund among Boston Jewish businessmen and opened it with a personal 100 contribution as Roxbury hosted a Beth Israel Hospital dedication parade with 5000 marchers, nurses on floats, and Hyman Danzig as chief marshal. Jacob Rosenfield received the golden key for a 600 gift, with the key later presented to hospital president Danzig. State Treasurer Burrill and Rabbi M Halpern spoke as the program closed.
Eight year old Mary Rico daughter of George Rico of 3 East Glenwood Hyde Park died at City Hospital after her dress caught fire from blazing leaves in a dump. Neighbors beat out the flames with rugs but her coat and dress burned away before ambulance arrived. She died five hours later.
In Haverhill on October 22 John Henry 66 Central Street awoke to find his wife Annie dead in bed beside him. Doctors attributed the death to heart disease.
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